Health Insurance & Delivery Systems

Health Insurance & Delivery Systems

Health Insurance & Delivery Systems

Healthcare payers and delivery systems now compete on a radically altered playing field due to cost pressures and the global impact of healthcare reform. Bain works alongside diverse clients, from insurance companies to hospital systems, not only to develop the right strategy and operating model but also to implement changes quickly and efficiently.

What We Do

What We Do

Bain's work with leading healthcare payers and delivery systems addresses key issues faced by industry players and draws on our cross-sector industry expertise and insights. We work with payers and delivery systems to help them focus on the following areas imperative to their success:

Mergers & Acquisitions. Bain helps healthcare companies significantly improve their odds of successful M&A through an integrated, battle-tested approach that links acquisition strategy, due diligence and merger integration. Bain works closely with our clients to make their M&A transactions pay off by developing a clearly articulated strategy, integrating where it matters and acting quickly to create value for shareholders.

Designing the organization for integrated care delivery. Healthcare delivery systems must adapt their decision-making processes to integrate care across disparate sites and providers. These companies must identify the highest-value decision opportunities and build enduring behaviors, measures and incentives throughout the organization to deliver better outcomes at lower cost.

Improving customer loyalty. Unsustainable cost growth and increasing consumer engagement are changing the behavior of purchasing decision makers—and decision criteria—throughout the healthcare industry. To find opportunities amid these dramatic shifts in the customer environment, leading healthcare payers and delivery systems are learning new ways to identify their true customers, understand those customers' needs and adapt their offerings to create powerful advocates.

Focusing on local scale. As has been the case for decades, healthcare payers and delivery systems can increase the efficiency of their assets—as well as improve the probability of being a price-setter rather than a price-follower—by building their share in the local markets.

Optimizing the portfolio. Both healthcare payers and delivery systems must take a hard look at their assets and investment opportunities in order to achieve full potential of their current and future portfolios. They will also need to make hard choices between efficiency vs. effectiveness and short-term vs. long-term returns.

Expanding beyond the core. Margins may be permanently constrained for payers and delivery systems in the US. Adjacent markets, such as new healthcare services, geographies and business models, may offer attractive growth opportunities.

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Our Perspective

Our Perspective

Healthcare payers and delivery systems are facing disruptive changes. Cost pressure and healthcare reform has opened the doorway to new ways of doing business. Private payers need to reevaluate how to design products that are still relevant in a rapidly changing environment, build solid relationships with their members, and support providers with care management tools and reimbursement systems that encourage higher quality of care at lower cost. Delivery systems must prepare to take on more responsibility to contain costs while demonstrating continuous improvements in patient outcomes.

Many of the current initiatives healthcare payers and delivery systems are implementing are not new, but there is a greater sense of urgency. They will need to embrace the disruptive changes that are altering the competitive landscape and find new opportunities in both existing and new markets.